Fiery American rapper Azealia Banks has vowed by no means to return to Australia after cancelling a present due to the ‘threat’ of enjoying to a white viewers.
The outspoken New Yorker refused to play in Brisbane on Tuesday as a result of she felt at risk enjoying in entrance of a largely white viewers.
The cancellation marked the tip of Banks’ disastrous tour, with deliberate reveals in Melbourne and Sydney postponed as a result of ‘visa points’.
‘Final time I used to be in Brisbane and y’all threw shit on the stage and rattling close to hit me within the face with a bottle,’ Banks mentioned on Instagram.
‘I am not taking the f***ing threat, I am a wonderful black girl, I am not about to get in entrance of an viewers of white folks for them to be throwing s*** at me.
Banks, 31, apparently agreed to play in Brisbane so long as safety measures have been beefed up – then backed out claiming her requests had been disregarded.
‘This place makes me totally depressing … it’s too bodily taxing for $0.61 on the USD to waste my time with this traumatic bulls***.’
In 2013 in Melbourne she walked off stage after being hit with a beer can after enjoying for less than 90 seconds on the Pay attention Out Competition.
On the identical tour a beer can was thrown on stage at her Sydney gig.
On the time she apologised to Melbourne followers ‘whose expertise was affected by the habits of 1 particular person’.
However she additionally described touring Australia as ”essentially the most racist, most demoralising expertise of my f***ing life’.
In 2011, one other American rapper Tyler The Creator referred to as out Brisbane.
‘Out right here in Brisbane, Australia. Folks out listed here are racist as fuck. I am uncomfortable and wish to go house. I get this bizarre vibe.’
